Li Xiucai is from the county town, but his family is very ordinary. He rents a house to run his school and also lives in a rented house. The rent alone costs a lot of money every year.
In order to make some money, he not only accepted many students, but also sold meals at noon.
Every day he asked his wives, concubines, and daughters-in-law to prepare meals and bring them to the students who had paid for them.
But there were also people who did not eat in the school. Some did so because their families were too poor to afford the food, and some did so because they looked down upon the food provided by Li Xiucai's family.
Students who ate in the school had to pay two hundred coins per month. The food was okay, but the taste was very ordinary.
Today, the food in the school was meat and tofu soup, with pickled vegetables and boiled loofah.
Yao Zhenfu paid for his meals at the school. Every time he ate in the past, he would secretly calculate whether he was given enough food. But today, he didn't think too much about it. After taking his bowl and filling it with his own meal, he ate without any appetite.
While he was eating, he saw someone coming in carrying a load on his shoulders.
That was the person from the Zhu family who delivered food to Zhu Xunmiao.
The man took out four dishes and a soup from the food box and placed them in front of Zhu Xunmiao, and also took out a plate of desserts and a plate of peaches.
There are quite a lot of these things, so that Zhu Xunmiao can treat people around him to a meal conveniently.
Zhu Xunmiao did invite Xu Qifei and others to dinner.
Xu Qifei's family was poor and could not even afford the money for meals at school, but because he curryed favor with Zhu Xunmiao, he could eat delicious food every day.
Yao Zhenfu really looked down on him.
He also disliked Zhu Xunmiao. Knowing that there were many students from poor families in the school, Zhu Xunmiao still deliberately showed off the wealth of the Zhu family in front of them!
But... why doesn't his father have Zhu Qian's ability? If he had the Zhu family's money, he wouldn't have to worry!
Yao Zhenfu was arrested yesterday.
His lover was called Xuniang. They were being intimate when suddenly someone rushed in.
He was caught red-handed, and the letters he had written to Xuniang and some other things he had sent were used as evidence. Xuniang's husband said that if he didn't give her money, he would show those things to his classmates in school and embarrass him.
This is absolutely not possible!
But one hundred taels...
Yao Zhenfu was frightened for the whole day before leaving the school.
There was a riverside pier next to his school, where several boats were docked. Some students who did not live in the county town would discuss with the boatman from the same village and take the boat back.
Of course, there were also people from well-off families who hired a boat to send him back.
As for students in the county town, most of them walk home, but some who live far away take the boat.
Yao Zhenfu didn't want people to know that his father was a boatman, so he always asked Yao the boatman to wait for him somewhere else. After they went out, he turned into an alley.
However, as soon as he turned in, his face changed drastically—Xuniang's husband was standing in front of him, smiling at him!
Xuniang's husband was a man in his forties, with dark skin and a fierce look on his face: "Have you collected enough money?"
“Not… not yet…” Yao Zhenfu was a little fat and sweated a lot, and now the sweat was pouring down even more.
"You'd better get the money together quickly, or I'll go to the government to sue you! Don't even think about hiding. If you dare, I'll show your letters to your classmates and let them all know what dirty things you've done!" Xuniang's husband snorted coldly.